The Cordova Public Library, Cordova Book Club and Cordova Arts and Pageants are joining together to sponsor a Writers Workshop with Alaskan author Tom Kizzia. The event will be held in the Cordova Center at Community Room A from 7-9 pm on September 29. There is a $25 registration fee.
Tom Kizzia traveled widely in in rural Alaska as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, and on CNN. He is a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of Hampshire College. His stories about the Pilgrim Family won a President’s Award from McClatchy Newspapers. His first book, The Wake of Unseen Object, was named on of the best non-fiction books about Alaska by the State Historical Society.
Here’s a review of Mr. Kizzia’s latest work. “Pilgrim’s Wilderness is not a book — it’s a powerful magnet, and once you begin you will not be able to pull yourself away. This spellbinding, shocking, and, yes, inspirational story of a family’s journey into the heart of darkness delivers the raw power and revelatory truth of a Scorsese film. Except better, because every word is true.” — Daniel Coyle, author of The Secret Race and The Talent Code.
To sign up for the Writers Workshop please stop by the Library.
The Cordova Public Library is open:
Tuesday – Thursday 10:00-8:00
Friday 10:00-6:00
Saturday and Sunday Noon – 5:00